Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. I must confess I've never played World of Warcraft... not really out of any societal reason, just that I haven't been a big computer gamer since the glory days of Doom and Duke Nuke 'Em 3-D.

But I'm intrigued by the feature adaptation of that universe. I was interested when Sam Raimi signed to direct and am even more interested now that I hear that Raimi has picked Robert Rodat (best known for writing SAVING PRIVATE RYAN) to pen the screenplay.

That's quite a serious pair to put on this material and shows we're (hopefully) not going to end up with a WING COMMANDER type movie. I understand that Frank Darabont did a lot of uncredited work on SPR, but what really matters is that Raimi seems to be going for a real-deal screenwriter, not flavor of the week genre writers.

MTV got the scoop in a phoner with Raimi (click here to read their story and hear Raimi's audio) as well as details on what to expect from the adaptation. Raimi says not to expect a story fans already know, but rather something the encompasses the lands and characters of the game, but that might or might not focus on the central characters of the game. Pretty much meaning that there will be an original story put into this universe.

Thoughts?

-Quint
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